Maro

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by Maro 9y ago
The first ~50 pages are free on google books, you can see that it goes into great detail about things like VGA and how the bus worked. So it's not very relevant for today, but it's fun; at least for old (36) people like me.
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by Maro 9y ago
Things to look at: H2O, Amazon ML Platform, Azure ML, Google Cloud Actually, in this case I'd bet on the big cloud providers to eventually deliver sth nice (or acquire and integrate).
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by Maro 9y ago
This is like FB's FBLearner, which I've used a little bit. This is a platform, so this is not at at the SKL/Tensorflow/Caffe level, this is something which says: put your data in our data warehouse in this format, tell m
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by Maro 9y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, I empathize with this notion. I think at all ages you have to leverage what you have. When you're young, you have a lot of energy, so you learn a lot and work a lot. When you're older, h
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by Maro 9y ago
Personally (I'm 36) I like the 'pressure' I receive all the time, from all over the place, like the ones mentioned in the article: why don't I have a six-pack, why am I not more 'perfect' with my g/f, why
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by Maro 9y ago
Hey, I was in a similar situation 2 years ago when I had a similar offer from one of Facebook, although in the high-cost European city of London. Pros: - you will learn a lot at these companies - you will work with very smart people, which
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by Maro 9y ago
> Uber's global ride-share business was margin positive last quarter, which is a flip from Q1. I think this means that the cost associated with an avg ride was less than Uber charged for the ride. "R&D overhead" is all
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by Maro 9y ago
Dunno, I created 3 objects and they all gravitated towards the center of the triangle.
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by Maro 9y ago
A simple one is growth. If you're at a startup, it needs to grow. If growth isn't what it should be, it's decelerating, or it's zero, that's trouble. Wait for 6-12 months (depending on size and stability of company)
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by Maro 9y ago
Hey! First of all, congrats for making it this far! I had a startup, but we never were able to secure funding before we folded. We got approached by a company that was both interested in our product and also wanted to invest. When this happ
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by Maro 9y ago
I actually do not, even though I was around back then and had a page like this. I find the site impossible to see, navigate, understand. We've come such a long way towards more usable, user-friendly sites.
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by Maro 9y ago
Really good, short book that you will learn a lot from and can apply the next day when writing emails. HBR Guide to Better Business Writing https://www.amazon.com/HBR-Guide-Better-Business-Writing/dp/... Also, in
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by Maro 9y ago
I find this from Bezos to be a good tldr for programmers about ML/AI: "Over the past decades computers have broadly automated tasks that programmers could describe with clear rules and algorithms. Modern machine learning technique
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by Maro 9y ago
I have tried to use Haskell a number of times in the past ~5 years for small-scale projects and witnessed others try to use it, and most of these projects (actually I think all) have resulted in failure / rewrites in more simple/p
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by Maro 10y ago
Here's a version I wrote in C++ for ScalienDB about 5-6 years ago, this startup has since folded so it's dead code: https://github.com/scalien/scaliendb/tree/master/src/Framewo... Paxos: f
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by Maro 10y ago
I wish more people would read 'Hack and HHVM', written by Owen Yamauchi, formerly a member of Facebook’s core Hack and HHVM teams. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920037194.do The hidden lesson for me was
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by Maro 10y ago
All in Budapest: CRAFT ---- Software ---- April 25-28 ---- https://craft-conf.com/ CRUNCH ---- Data ---- October 5-7 ---- http://crunchconf.com/ AMUSE ---- UX ---- October 18-20 ---- http://amuse
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by Maro 10y ago
tldr = Haskell+C+SQL
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by Maro 10y ago
Office is for work not play. At the really good/successful companies there's very strong work ethic, so people are not socializing on the floor, making calls, listening to music without headphones. In that case I'd say you ha
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by Maro 10y ago
I've been working in open office environments for the last 5+ years, also at one of AmaFaceGooSoft. I find it's a non-issue, it doesn't bother me or others, I can't recall a time in the last 1-2 years when someone compla
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by Maro 10y ago
I haven't written C in a while, but I think this is pretty stupid. sizeof() is a compile-time thing in C, so it's substituted with a number by the time you get an executable. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions
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by Maro 10y ago
Watch out for 'Trivial Accomplishments'. It's a term I came up with as I observed myself making todo lists, completing them, feeling good about it, but realizing that I'm not getting from A to B on important projects. It
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by Maro 10y ago
> Imagine one army where every single unit is controlled by one human. Each individual unit would be very very strong. Like a real army :)
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by Maro 10y ago
The OP should have snuck a joke in there about The Armory :)
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by Maro 10y ago
Honest advice: Stop working for/with stupid companies/people and start working for smart ones.
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Show HN: Our Take on Intuition Engineering with Docker(medium.com)
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by Maro 10y ago
Disclaimer: non-expert. I think that's mixing two things: the code that the miners run, and the code that is the digital contract. I think the idea behind digital contracts is that, once the parties commit to it, it should be set in st
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by Maro 10y ago
I prefer practical programming language extensions, like the new C++ standard which adds useful things, or Hack which makes PHP useful, or the typed extensions to Javascript and Python.
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by Maro 10y ago
I also used to think that, and in the long-term I agree, and I have (i) done a startup in Europe (failed for lacking of funding) (ii) worked for a European startup (Prezi). But right now I work for Facebook (in London), and this is a good t
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by Maro 10y ago
I work at Facebook, I think I had ~10 interviews in total. I think 5-10 is pretty normal for large companies: 3-4 on the phone, 3-5 on site, plus followup. It's very exhausting. In my case it took 4 months from first contact to offer a

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